{"id":33011,"date":"2017-05-03T17:27:55","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T17:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=33011"},"modified":"2017-05-03T17:35:32","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T17:35:32","slug":"ubari-sand-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/05\/ubari-sand-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubari sand sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFrica&#8217;s enormous desert<br \/>\nThe saharan scene<br \/>\nTHe ubari sand sea Pyramids<br \/>\nVast sand  dunes have always been<\/p>\n<p>Rising upwards artistically<br \/>\nCasting their shadows wide<br \/>\nTempting the Swallows from nigeria<br \/>\nReally to come in side<\/p>\n<p>1200 miles of flapping widely<br \/>\nBrought them to this high<br \/>\nTo the great Um el Mar salt lake<br \/>\nTnat smiles up at the sky<\/p>\n<p>Concentrated sodium<br \/>\nas toxic as can be<br \/>\nUnable to sustain the swallows<br \/>\nWith consistency<\/p>\n<p>Was knowledge of the situation<br \/>\nAll around this pool<br \/>\nVast expanses of rotten flies<br \/>\nWhi answered the call<\/p>\n<p>Poisoned by the  saltiness<br \/>\nBut given to the way<br \/>\nOf a miracle of nutrition<br \/>\nThe freshness so they say<\/p>\n<p>Eating up the dying flies<br \/>\nsbare tbe waters do<br \/>\nThe swallows get the water<br \/>\nKnowing it is true<\/p>\n<p>EAch fly a gulp of freshness<br \/>\nA cooling symphony<br \/>\nA massive writhing cover<br \/>\nExtracted accordingly<\/p>\n<p>Empowering all those thirsty souls<br \/>\nWith extra fuel for flight<br \/>\nTo take them out of Africa<br \/>\nFulfilled with extra light<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFrica&#8217;s enormous desert The saharan scene THe ubari sand sea Pyramids Vast sand dunes have always been Rising upwards artistically Casting their shadows wide Tempting the Swallows from nigeria Really to come in side 1200 miles of flapping widely Brought &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/05\/ubari-sand-sea\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-environmental-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33011"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33016,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33011\/revisions\/33016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}